I killed my flash plugin for firefox this morning; I think it was when installing the VLC plugin. I tried a ton of installs (apt get, the package installer etc etc).Nothing helped. It wasn't until I downloaded the plugin from Adobe and converted the .RPM file to .DEB, installed it, then went back and expanded it so I could get my hand on the .no(?) file to manually copy into the plugin folder that it worked.Basically, it seems there were a server slowdown or something 'cause when I did the apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree it went through the motions and at the very end saying the response time from the server was too slow, and it failed.Unfortunately it installed far enough that Firefox listed the plugin as more or less installed, but you got the text in Youtube saying it wasn't.Also, the firefox plugin folder is ROOT only so I had to figure out how to open it as ROOT before being able to copy the file into the folder.

*Phew*

In short, make sure that server is not "down" yet...? And try a manual install, if possible as I did, if it doesn't work.

morty007 wrote:I also tried apt-get remove according to I think what merlwiz said on a post below, but I get this error :

apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupportE: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

Oops forgot to log in. The post above is mine.Anyway I missed this question. You have to start the command with the word "sudo" (without the quote marks) to make sure Gnome gets that you want to run a ROOT command.

Ok so that fixed it for me, but I cannot see CNN videos, and metacafe vids use up about 50% of my cpu cycles. And some flash content totally crashes firefox 3 completely. youtube is fine though. It says I have version 10,0,0,569 installed

Well nspluginwrapper is suppose to stop flash from crashing firefox but you aren't using it since you didn't install it correctly.viewtopic.php?p=99704#p99704I fixed the link just change apt install flashplugin-nonfree to double clicking the .deb file.

Actually, they play if I go to the video link up on the top page of cnn. But if I just click on one of the ones on the homepage (like the one's that are talking about hurricane gustav) then that opens up a window and I get the following:

That ebay page just sucks the life out of my cpu, it's crazy.

Last edited by morty007 on Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:59 am, edited 1 time in total.

First you have your email in that pic.Second that's not the flash video player, it's a cnn video player.All flash videos are at http://www.cnn.com/videoI don't think there is a live feed because http://www.cnn.com/video doesn't do anything when I click Live Video.None of the live links work.Maybe I'll try it in Vista.

Ok the FAQ's page says

Windows Media Player is required to utilize CNN Live Video. CNN Live Video is optimized for Windows Media Player version 9 and above. To check your version, open the player, select "Help," and then "About" from the top toolbar.